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122nd Ave Plan: Safety, Access and Transit

PBOT is developing a plan to identify improvements on 122nd Ave, between SE Foster and NE Marine Dr. We will consider changes to the street cross-section, additional enhanced crossings, lighting, signal changes and more to meet the following goals.

Thank you to the over 1,000 Portlanders who participated in the 122nd Ave Survey over the summer of 2018!

As PBOT staff begin to develop early concepts for 122nd Ave, we’ll use the information gained from this survey to inform the proposed changes we develop. We want to learn what safety and access concerns people have who use 122nd Ave on a regular basis. The priorities expressed in this survey will guide our technical analysis and evaluation as we weigh the trade-offs, benefits and impacts of any proposed changes.

Currently, 122nd Ave is a High Crash Corridor that does not adequately serve all modes. It is a difficult and stressful environment to walk, bike, cross the street and access transit. The street is typically a five-lane arterial with on-street parking and narrow bike lanes that becomes turn lanes at major signalized intersection. The sidewalks are often narrow and substandard. Most of 122nd Avenue does not meet the City's new guidelines for marked crosswalk spacing. Buses experience delay, including slow average speeds, high dwell time at stops and significant travel speed variability during peak travel times.

There is growing need and community demand for a safer street and better transit, bicycle facilities, sidewalks, crossings and streetscape along the 122nd Ave corridor.

Public involvement is an essential part of the 122nd Ave planning process. Learn more about Public Engagement, Events and Materials here. Here are some key elements of out outreach strategy:

A series of 3-4 ‘Community Sounding Board’ meetings with representatives from multiple community stakeholder interests coming together to provide input at key milestones and decision points.

Public open houses: Present materials to the general public and seek feedback at key milestones and decision points. PBOT staff will host or partner with others to host open houses.

Targeted language-based outreach in under-represented communities along 122nd Ave with the Community Engagement Liaison (CELs) program.

Tabling at local events

Presentations to community organizations

Surveys

Website

Video

Email updates and social media

Planning Context:

In 2015, the City entered into a partnership in which TriMet will provide Frequent Service along bus line 73 and PBOT will build at least $8 Million in safety, access and transit priority improvements in increments over roughly five years. Recently, PBOT completed roughly $4 Million of improvements along bus line 73 and TriMet increased the frequency of buses.

Currently, PBOT has roughly $2 Million of Fixing Our Streets (FOS) program funds allocated for design and construction of safety and access improvements along 122nd Ave in 2019-2020. This FOS funded project is another increment of investment towards this agreement with TriMet. This project has not yet been planned and scoped to identify specific improvements. Therefore, we will begin with a planning phase.

Scoping the FOS project is a major objective of this planning process, though not the only objective. The 122nd Ave Plan is an opportunity to consider broader transformation of 122nd Ave to meet our policy goals, including potential changes to the cross-section and identify additional desired future improvements beyond the FOS project.

In the Portland 2035 Comprehensive Plan, 122nd Ave is identified as a Civic Corridor from NE Sandy Blvd to SE Foster Rd with a Town Center around SE Division, a Neighborhood Center around E Burnside and the Gateway Regional Center nearby.

Segments of 122nd Ave were identified as Enhanced Transit candidate for improving transit capacity, reliability and speed along TriMet bus line 73.

Segments of 122nd Ave, between NE Shaver and SE Powell, are candidates for Enhanced Transit through both the City’s Draft Enhanced Transit Corridors Plan and the recently funded Regional Enhanced Transit Concept pilot program led by Metro and TriMet. Therefore, improving transit capacity, reliability and speed are important objectives along line 73 on 122nd Ave. There may be opportunity for some hot spots or segments on 122nd Ave to advance to project development through the regional ETC pilot program and potentially be incorporated into the 122nd Ave Plan.